Jazz News

New Jazz Film: They Died Before 40

Source: Michael Ricci
January 30, 2010

Many people may have heard of Charlie Parker, who died at 34. But others, such as Herschel Evans, who died before reaching 30, are very little known and their stories untold. For example, Jo Jones, drummer and an integral part of the Count Basie band for many years, has called Evans the greatest musician he ever played with. He said that Evans made everyone he played with better.

Who was this giant, what made him an important creative artist and ...

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AAJ Tops 5 Million MP3 Downloads

Source: Michael Ricci
January 29, 2010

All About Jazz recently topped 5,000,000 free MP3 downloads.

AAJ has offered a free daily download since November 2005 from artists spanning all genres of jazz including Gary Burton, Brian Blade, Matthew Shipp, Jon Hassell, Kenny Garrett, Dave Holland, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Aaron Parks, Terence Blanchard, Craig Taborn, Mike Moreno, Rob Reddy, Ted Nash, Mingus Big Band, Exploding Star Orchestra, David Weiss, Bob Mintzer, Microscopic Septet, Ron Horton, Ben Allison, Greg Tardy, Ingrid Jensen, John McNeil, Wycliffe Gordon, Mario Pavone, Scott ...

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150 New Additions to AAJ Upcoming Jazz CD/DVD Release Center

Source: Michael Ricci
January 29, 2010

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Southern Cal Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2010

Jazz Music in The Southland

Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. Herb Alpert, the Grammy Award-winning trumpet player and band leader of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, performs a blend of American standards and Brazilian-inspired jazz with his wife, singer Lani Hall. Jan 29, 2010 08:00PM

Do Make Say Think w/ the Happiness Project Troubadour 9081 Santa ...

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Jazz Music New York Weekend

Source: Michael Ricci
January 29, 2010

Weekend Jazz New York

AUDIA ACUA GROUP (Friday and Saturday) Chilean jazz singer band that includes the guitarist Juancho Herrera 9 and 10:30 p.m. Jazz Gallery 290 Hudson Street at Spring Street, South Village (212) 242-1063,

AFINIDAD (Tuesday and Wednesday) Edward Simon and the alto saxophonist David Binney, Scott Colley on bass, Antonio Sanchez on drums, and as special guests, the vocalist ...

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Paul R. Jones Major Collector of African American Art Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
January 29, 2010

Jones acquired drawings, paintings, photos, sculptures and other works by black artists. 'My goal has been to incorporate African American art into American art,' he once said.

Paul Jones began buying pieces in the 1960s after noting that African American art was underrepresented in public galleries. In 2008, he donated about 1,700 pieces valued at $5 million to the University of Alabama, which established an art collection in his name.

Paul R. Jones, a collector of African American art who ...

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J.D. Salinger: A Gift of Words and Silence

Source: Michael Ricci
January 29, 2010

AN APPRECIATION In his greatest works, a clash between self-expression and self-effacement. “Don't ever tell anybody anything," J.D. Salinger wrote in the closing lines of “The Catcher in the Rye." “If you do, you start missing everybody."

For more than two decades now, I've thought about that ending as a piece of code. Not that Salinger, who died Wednesday at age 91 in Cornish, N.H., was an oracle, despite what his most dedicated followers -- those who hung ...

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Pasadena Playhouse Will Close Feb. 7

Source: Michael Ricci
January 29, 2010

The Pasadena Playhouse will close Feb. 7 after the final performance of its current production of “Camelot," leaving its future in jeopardy as company leaders explore ways out of its financial woes, including a possible bankruptcy filing.

Stephen Eich, the executive director hired last June to run the theater, said 37 employees learned at a staff meeting Thursday that they would be out of work. The playhouse is essentially out of cash to continue running, he said, and faces more ...

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